Cloud Website Hosting Uncovered

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Even so, only a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story brief, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one file storage device for all users, does not convert any given service provider into an actual cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domain names, sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than providing only remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one or perchance an entire pack of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting supplier will support numerous datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.ng.suuhost.com

dns2.ng.suuhost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server just reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage service, as numerous hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will surface out of nowhere.